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*Marilyn Monroe* · 11-17-2002, 11:54 PM

OK...here's a question, and since religion ones usually get good responses....

Have you ever questioned your religion? Or just felt like God had completely turned his back on you? (if you believe in God)

¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ · 11-17-2002, 11:58 PM

No. I believe in God. I also believe in fate. Ive never questioned my beliefs. I believe, but I dont like LIVE my life for God. I dont see myself asking WWJD in every situation. I just try to do whats right. Im a good girl.

Kristina · 11-18-2002, 12:05 AM

My God is Avril Lavigne, she never let me down once.

InspectorExstead · 11-18-2002, 12:40 AM

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Originally posted by tootiefan4life
My God is Avril Lavigne, she never let me down once.

lol. true...

I don't believe in God. But I've questioned the history of my religion and I hate all the rules against women.

dawsongirl · 11-18-2002, 02:22 AM

I believe in God, but I don't trust organized religion. I doubt He cares whether or not I go to church. Like Mrs. O'Brien said, I'm a good girl.

DarleneIllyria · 11-18-2002, 02:36 AM

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Originally posted by dawsongirl
I doubt He cares whether or not I go to church.

Thank you! I feel the same way. My family has started to go to church, but I just don't feel comfortable in a church. I've had a bunch of crappy moments in my life and that kind of made me lose faith a bit. My parents have like gained faith and started going off to church and like I said, I'm just not ready to go to church. If I want to believe, I can believe where ever I want.

Jinny Girl · 11-18-2002, 08:19 AM

i believe in god now but ihave doubts and for a few years i didn;t believe at all so obviously ive questioned it.

Moonlight Lady · 11-18-2002, 09:56 AM

Same here, I don't need to go to church to believe in god.
I try to be a good person.

Titania · 11-18-2002, 11:20 AM

I believe in God now but I did have a few years where I began questioning. Just because a lot of crap had happened and I didnt know why He would do that to me and someone at church had told me that it was "meant to happen" and that got me soooooooo mad because i still dont know why some of it happened.

Blonde Hoochie Mama · 11-18-2002, 11:47 AM

yea i question it, but then it's like, why be an athiest and take the chance to be wrong. Im not really religious tho. . . .

Blair85 · 11-18-2002, 12:54 PM

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Originally posted by Jenny

Thank you! I feel the same way. My family has started to go to church, but I just don't feel comfortable in a church. I've had a bunch of crappy moments in my life and that kind of made me lose faith a bit. My parents have like gained faith and started going off to church and like I said, I'm just not ready to go to church. If I want to believe, I can believe where ever I want.

I hear that. Most of the faithful church-goers I know are big hypocrites (sp?) I've been questioning religion for a while, and for a while I stopped praying and I felt crappy. I just recently started praying again and things got a little better, but I'm not nearly as faithful as I used to be & almost turned atheist (sp?) but I fugure people gotta believe in something. I do believe though that God has favorites & that I am probably not one of them.

JoPol_wannabe · 11-18-2002, 01:10 PM

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Originally posted by AliciaKeysForever
OK...here's a question, and since religion ones usually get good responses....

Have you ever questioned your religion? Or just felt like God had completely turned his back on you? (if you believe in God)

NO I don't question my religion because all things happen for my good even the bad things and I don't feel like god has ever turned his back on me (god would never turn his back on his choosen ones) even when bad things happen to me I believe that god lets bad things happen to us to make us turn to him or to learn lessons. That's what I think anyways.

Adele · 11-18-2002, 01:45 PM

My 'family' has always been pretty religious, so I was raised in church and heard about God all my life......and until I was 13, I went along with it all, and never asked any questions. Then I started "questioning my faith". What I "believed" weren't even 'my' beliefs at all, but what everyone else has been TELLING me to believe for my entire life. And, ya, I questioned whether God even existed. I mean, there's no proof, no explanations, or any"good" reasons why he might. As for the Bible, that could EASILY have been a bunch of made up stories, written by people who wanted to keep order. Plus, we had been learning about religion in school, and heard about how during some time period (Like 100 yrs, I dunno the dates..), people just REwrote the bible to fit their needs. But then, finally, someone rewrote the ORIGINAL version again, and everything was "ok". But, if this went on for 100 years, and there were so many different versions, uhhhh, how could ANY1 possibly know what the "original" one was? Ya, ok well anywayz, I finally just realized that not everything NEEDS explaining. So, I believe in God, and some other things. However, I don't believe in some of the things 'my' religion teaches... Annnnnnd..... that's all I have to say about that. haha

BBF · 11-18-2002, 02:25 PM

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Originally posted by Blair85

I hear that. Most of the faithful church-goers I know are big hypocrites.

Well, I believe in God and I am a christian, but I also totally agree with you on that! I go to church every week and I love it, but I know 90 percent of the other people that go to my church are the biggest hypocrites ever! They come to church acting all "holier than thou" but if you were to run into them outside of church...there's no way you'd think they were religious church going christians...not in a million years. I didn't go to church most of my life, but a friend got me to go when I was in my early teens. I hated it because I knew a lot of the people there and they all talked about stuff like drinking and all that and said they would never do any of that but I knew for a fact they did that stuff every other day of the week! I figured, why should I go to church if this is the way it is? And I stopped for a while, but then I started going back and realized that maybe they all are hypocrites, but I also decided that I was going to church for me, not them, and although it was wrong, what they were doing was their business. I also feel that everyone has a right to believe what they want and if they believe in God, to worship him the way they want. I definitely don't believe that certain religions and certain churches are the only way to do it.

Mossopp · 11-18-2002, 02:58 PM

Organised religion scares the crap out of me!
I wasn't raised in a religious family but the primary school I went to (primary school is what you attend between the ages of 5 and 12) practically rammed it down my throat at every opportunity. I know young children are impressionable but I never really took in what I was taught about Christianity at school. In fact, the older I got, the more I really began to resent the way that we were told that Christianity was the only way. To my mind, children should be taught, impartially, about all major religions - not to be force-fed only one.
Although I personally don't believe in it, I'm not against Christianity itself. What I do take issue with is when people try to maintain that it's God's way or nothing at all and those who don't believe are going to hell. That just sickens and angers me. If I had a quid for every self-righteous Christian who has called me a "sinner" then I'd be a very rich woman. What ever happened to "let he who is without sin cast the first stone"? Are you telling me that these Christians who are condemning me have never put a foot wrong in their lives? I doubt it! I also take issue with that fact that, as far as the Bible is concerned, I am evil cos I'm gay - why should I be condemned because of that?! And doesn't the Bible say that we should love everyone unconditionally? Of doesn't that include gay people? Hmmmmm, bit of a contradiction there, me thinks.....!

Religeon isn't for me. It's too judgemental. I'm my own person and I'll live by my own rules. As long as I don't harm anyone else in the process then I don't see why I should go to hell. As far as I'm concerned, heaven and hell are just states of mind. I don't like the idea that there's someone up there, sitting on a cloud, who has our lives already all planned out for us. I'll make my own way in the world thank you very much.
Like I said before, I don't dislike all Christians. If believing in a higher power helps you guys sleep at night then good for you. It just doesn't work for me, that's all.

Mossopp.

11-17-2002, 11:54 PM	#1
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11-18-2002, 08:19 AM	#7
Jinny Girl Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 04, 2001 Location: ...I'm not sure (looks around) WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE!!?!??!? Posts: 2,726	i believe in god now but ihave doubts and for a few years i didn;t believe at all so obviously ive questioned it.
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11-18-2002, 09:56 AM	#8
Moonlight Lady Member Forum Star Join Date: Aug 18, 2002 Posts: 16,052	Same here, I don't need to go to church to believe in god. I try to be a good person.
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Titania a part of that Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 04, 2000 Posts: 3,694	I believe in God now but I did have a few years where I began questioning. Just because a lot of crap had happened and I didnt know why He would do that to me and someone at church had told me that it was "meant to happen" and that got me soooooooo mad because i still dont know why some of it happened.
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11-18-2002, 12:05 AM	#3
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11-18-2002, 02:22 AM	#5
dawsongirl Member Forum Icon Join Date: Jan 04, 2001 Posts: 53,140	I believe in God, but I don't trust organized religion. I doubt He cares whether or not I go to church. Like Mrs. O'Brien said, I'm a good girl.

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Blonde Hoochie Mama Banned Banned!! Frequent Poster Join Date: May 04, 2002 Location: at the Osbournes Posts: 206	yea i question it, but then it's like, why be an athiest and take the chance to be wrong. Im not really religious tho. . . .

11-18-2002, 01:45 PM	#13
Adele Member Forum Regular Join Date: May 02, 2001 Posts: 634	My 'family' has always been pretty religious, so I was raised in church and heard about God all my life......and until I was 13, I went along with it all, and never asked any questions. Then I started "questioning my faith". What I "believed" weren't even 'my' beliefs at all, but what everyone else has been TELLING me to believe for my entire life. And, ya, I questioned whether God even existed. I mean, there's no proof, no explanations, or any"good" reasons why he might. As for the Bible, that could EASILY have been a bunch of made up stories, written by people who wanted to keep order. Plus, we had been learning about religion in school, and heard about how during some time period (Like 100 yrs, I dunno the dates..), people just REwrote the bible to fit their needs. But then, finally, someone rewrote the ORIGINAL version again, and everything was "ok". But, if this went on for 100 years, and there were so many different versions, uhhhh, how could ANY1 possibly know what the "original" one was? Ya, ok well anywayz, I finally just realized that not everything NEEDS explaining. So, I believe in God, and some other things. However, I don't believe in some of the things 'my' religion teaches... Annnnnnd..... that's all I have to say about that. haha

11-18-2002, 02:58 PM	#15
Mossopp asleep at the wheel Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 30, 2000 Location: Helensburgh, Scotland Posts: 3,726	Organised religion scares the crap out of me! I wasn't raised in a religious family but the primary school I went to (primary school is what you attend between the ages of 5 and 12) practically rammed it down my throat at every opportunity. I know young children are impressionable but I never really took in what I was taught about Christianity at school. In fact, the older I got, the more I really began to resent the way that we were told that Christianity was the only way. To my mind, children should be taught, impartially, about all major religions - not to be force-fed only one. Although I personally don't believe in it, I'm not against Christianity itself. What I do take issue with is when people try to maintain that it's God's way or nothing at all and those who don't believe are going to hell. That just sickens and angers me. If I had a quid for every self-righteous Christian who has called me a "sinner" then I'd be a very rich woman. What ever happened to "let he who is without sin cast the first stone"? Are you telling me that these Christians who are condemning me have never put a foot wrong in their lives? I doubt it! I also take issue with that fact that, as far as the Bible is concerned, I am evil cos I'm gay - why should I be condemned because of that?! And doesn't the Bible say that we should love everyone unconditionally? Of doesn't that include gay people? Hmmmmm, bit of a contradiction there, me thinks.....! Religeon isn't for me. It's too judgemental. I'm my own person and I'll live by my own rules. As long as I don't harm anyone else in the process then I don't see why I should go to hell. As far as I'm concerned, heaven and hell are just states of mind. I don't like the idea that there's someone up there, sitting on a cloud, who has our lives already all planned out for us. I'll make my own way in the world thank you very much. Like I said before, I don't dislike all Christians. If believing in a higher power helps you guys sleep at night then good for you. It just doesn't work for me, that's all. Mossopp.
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